MotherDuck is peeking its head above water. The Seattle startup lifted the hood Tuesday on its data analytics system based on the open-source platform DuckDB. It also announced total funding of… Read More
Amazon has spent years building technology to reshape how shoppers use its physical retail stores. Now the company is introducing a new analytics service to help brands better understand how… Read More
Edge Delta, a Seattle-based startup that’s building a distributed analytics platform, raised $3 million in seed funding from lead investors MaC Venture Capital and Amity Ventures. The freshly-launched company was… Read More
The Seattle Seahawks have the NFL’s second-best winning percentage since 2012. One of the secrets to that success may lie within the team’s sports science department. Seattle has separated itself… Read More
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Technology isn’t just improving athletic performance or changing the way we watch sports. It’s also being used as a real-time analytics tool that is helping front… Read More
TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: We caught up with two big names in the NBA world to get an update on Seattle’s chances of getting professional basketball back… Read More
There’s a reason that everyone you look at it is looking at a smartphone. According to the folks whose job it is to track such things, people can’t get enough… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Major League Soccer clubs, like many other pro sports franchises, are using data analytics and technology more than ever to help players prepare and perform at higher… Read More
In a computing landscape where the word “cloud” figures into most every conversation and company name, the name CloudMoyo stands out. “Moyo” is Swahili for “spirit,” the same root word… Read More
Embed from Getty Images Bruce Arena isn’t the biggest believer in analytics. The Los Angeles Galaxy head coach bashed the use of data analytics in soccer after his team’s 2-1… Read More
Tune CEO Peter Hamilton was born to write and star in a parody of the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” Not only does he share his name with the title character, he… Read More
Former patrons of Belltown Billiards would probably balk at the sight of dishes like “rack of lamb” and “miso cod” being served at the iconic dive. But the menu was… Read More
It’s not so often that you interview a professional athlete and he or she starts talking about the Nash equilibrium, but John Urschel is certainly not your average NFL player. GeekWire… Read More
Maana is raising a big round of funding to fuel growth of its big data search engine platform that helps Fortune 100 companies maximize the use of their information. The company, which employs 50… Read More
Marketers can access more internal data than ever before thanks to high-powered software like Google Analytics. But having that information at your fingertips serves a limited purpose — getting actionable insights from data is what… Read More
Microsoft announced the third installment of its Microsoft Ventures Seattle Accelerator on Wednesday, this time focusing on data science and machine learning. In a world where we’re creating more data then… Read More
Microsoft announced on Thursday it has acquired VoloMetrix, a Seattle startup that offers a new way for large corporations to quantify employee efficiency. According to a blog post, Microsoft plans… Read More
The Seattle Sounders FC has consistently been one of the most dominant MLS soccer squads in its six years of existence. While the team has yet to win an MLS Cup, it has qualified for… Read More
RootMetrics, a Seattle-area company that provides information about the performance of cellular networks, has agreed to an acquisition by IHS, a Colorado-based company that provides information and analysis to support decision… Read More
Out of the 28 Major League Baseball teams competing today on “Opening Day,” there are a handful of squads using data and analytics to gain an advantage on the diamond. However, only one is… Read More
It was a big night for Hollywood, and also for Microsoft. A prediction model developed by David Rothschild, an economist in Microsoft Research’s New York City lab, correctly pegged 20… Read More
Smartphones today certainly can do more than just make a call or send a text — they also double as personal GPS devices that can monitor our precise movements. The ability to… Read More
Simply Measured is simply on fire. Less than a year after the company took home GeekWire’s 2013 Startup of the Year award, the Seattle-based social media analytics startup is announcing a… Read More
Twitter today opened the doors to its robust tool that lets anyone from big brands to basement bloggers monitor tweet performance — all for free. The platform was previously available to… Read More
I’m part nervous, a little excited and honestly, a bit scared. My first hackathon experience, which I’m going to document on GeekWire, commences Friday night. Two nights before Sunday’s Super Bowl,… Read More
Recording and studying statistics has always been a backbone of sports. Computers and technology, however, have revolutionized the way we can analyze exactly what’s happening on the field or court.… Read More
There’s no shortage of mobile applications floating around, with Apple’s app store alone counting nearly 340,000 apps created just this year. So, what’s an app developer to do in order to… Read More
Former T-Mobile USA Chief Information Architect Matthew Standish has raised $700,000 for a new analytics startup by the name of IDInteract. The Seattle company is developing technologies to aggregate and analyze big data… Read More
Seattle startup Context Relevant today announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Concur Technologies to bring its advanced data analytics offering to the maker of travel and… Read More
Placed, the Seattle startup that tells companies whether their customers are more likely to be engaging with mobile applications near a Starbucks or a Dunkin Donuts, or an L.A. Fitness or… Read More